Kantara Chapter 1 worldwide box office collection day 2: Rishab Shetty film earns ₹150 crore; beats Mirai, Sky Force

Kantara Chapter 1 worldwide box office collection day 2: Rishab Shetty's period actioner has stormed the box office worldwide.

Updated on: Oct 4, 2025, 11:34:21 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Kantara Chapter 1 worldwide box office collection: Kantara Chapter 1 has not let a working day after a festive release arrest its momentum. The Rishab Shetty film managed to avoid a big dip on Friday and set itself up for a bumper opening weekend, sustaining housefull shows across Karnataka and the rest of the country.

Kantara Chapter 1 worldwide box office collection day 2: Rishab Shetty in a still from the film.

Kantara Chapter 1 box office update

Kantara Chapter 1 had collected just under ₹90 crore worldwide on its opening day. The collections were helped by the Dussehra holiday, at least in India. But even overseas, the film performed well. On its second day, Kantara Chapter 1 returned domestic collections of ₹45 crore net. This takes its two-day domestic total to ₹106.85 crore net ( ₹128.25 crore gross). The film is already the highest-grossing Kannada film of the year, having surpassed the lifetime haul of Su From So ( ₹92 crore net).

Kantara Chapter 1 performed admirably overseas too, having earned over $2.5 million in the international territories in its first two days. This takes its worldwide gross after two days to a more than impressive ₹151 crore.

On Friday, Kantara Chapter 1 overtook the lifetime collections of recent big releases like Mirai ( ₹142 crore), Kesari Chapter 2 ( ₹144 crore), and Sky Force ( ₹150 crore). It has now set its sights on ₹200 crore, a mark it should breach on Saturday itself. Buoyed by strong word of mouth, Kantara Chapter 1 should aim to cross the ₹300 crore mark as early as Monday or Tuesday.

All about Kantara Chapter 1

Written and directed by Rishab Shetty, the original Kantara was a sleeper hit, earning over ₹400 crore worldwide on a ₹15 crore budget. The prequel - Kantara Chapter 1 - is set a thousand years before the events of the film. Apart from Rishab in the lead, the film also stars Rukmini Vasanth, Jayaram, and Gulshan Devaiah.

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Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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